Learners: Pairs of 5th and 6th Grade Teachers (one English teacher paired with a teacher from any other subject area)
Self: Librarians, teachers, instructional technologists and digital literacy advocates
Context: Professional development for teachers
Community: Middle school educators across various disciplines PURPOSE: This lesson is designed to help teachers convert existing lessons plans to an interdisciplinary unit using interactive ebooks
Learning Objectives:
Teachers will learn:
to convert existing lessons plans to an interdisciplinary unit involving interactive ebooks
create an interactive web-based eBook to be used in the interdisciplinary unit
understand the learning affordances of interactive web-based eBooks
Standards: Level 1: Standards for teachers earning professional development credits
NETS-T
1.Facilliatate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
2.Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
3.Model Digital Age Work and Learning
4.Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility
5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership
Level 2: Standards for Students when teachers implement lesson from our workshop
English and Writing Common Core State Standards that students will meet when teachers incorporate digital literacy tools using the model provided within the workshop include:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.1 Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.9 Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details and well-structured event sequences.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.5 Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.8 Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.9 Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
NOTE: Additional subject specific standards will apply depending on the teacher pairings
TASK/ACTIVITY (includes compelling question and possible scenario):
Compelling Question:
How can we support teachers in creating cross-disciplinary lesson plans using interactive ebooks?
Scenario: In this professional development workshop, teachers will create an interdisciplinary lesson plan using an interactive ebook (web-based book with embedded game component). Upon completion of the workshop, teachers will be able to use their ebook as a teaching tool. Additionally, teachers will be able to use their ebook as a sample to teach their students how to create their own interactive ebooks.
CONTENT
Topics:
Creating interdisciplinary lessons
Using digital tools
Combining lessons from a traditional English class (build literacy skills) with lessons from other subject areas
Generate interactive ebooks
Texts:
sample web-based interactive ebooks
teachers’s existing lesson plans
various websites for student research
screen capture tutorials for learning to create IMapBooks
Samples:
1. Interactive ebook: Summer Institute Example
Instructional Strategies: Communicate purpose verbally and with a written summary and outline of workshop (i.e. Instructional Plan), model the revision of an existing lesson plan; pair and share to merge an English lesson with a lesson from another subject area; reflect and modify lesson as needed; provide a template for teacher pairs to generate a collaborative lesson plan that results in an interactive ebook using IMapBooks
Tools:
Polleverywhere.com to assess comfort of teachers/students with using technology at the beginning and end of the workshop
Screencast-o-matic as an instructional tool for building interactive ebook
IMapBooks (www.imapbook.com)
ASSESSMENT
Rubric that outlines objectives for both English and other subject areas as well requirements for the interactive ebook
Work Products
Sample very short interactive web-based eBook, collaborative interdisciplinary lesson plan (Language Arts & another discipine)
How Measure?
Poll about whether they feed confident that they could develop lesson plans and interactive web-based eBook, and then use them with their students
Have they completed products? Use rubric and peer review to evaluate products.
Additional considerations:
Time frame: 1 day workshop Morning
Explain IMapBook concepts, show example IMapBooks ½ hour
designing the lesson (includes integrating a language with some other discipline, such as science or social studies), make rough lesson plan (1 hour)
create small story, find graphics (1 hour)
Afternoon
technical piece for learning IMapBooks, can use their own development lesson plan (2.5 hours)
create their IMapBook to support lesson. The ending should be missing, so their students can create an ending & game.
Complete the assessment template for their students
Setting: TBD
Post-Production Reflection
For our group, the creative process began with some elements of uncertainty and confusion. Our group members backgrounds ranged from a media advocate, an instructional technology college professor, and a librarian for a K through 8 school. With two of the three group members leaving before the end of the week, there was also a sense of urgency. This ended up driving us and by the end of Wednesday, we felt that we had a solid plan to move forward as we all went back to our respective professional lives and communities.
Introductory Video: __http://youtu.be/5_XycNK1G0M__
by: Jennifer Ladner, Tara Hixon, Glenn Smith
Learners: Pairs of 5th and 6th Grade Teachers (one English teacher paired with a teacher from any other subject area)
Self: Librarians, teachers, instructional technologists and digital literacy advocates
Context: Professional development for teachers
Community: Middle school educators across various disciplines
PURPOSE: This lesson is designed to help teachers convert existing lessons plans to an interdisciplinary unit using interactive ebooks
Learning Objectives:
Teachers will learn:
Standards:
Level 1: Standards for teachers earning professional development credits
NETS-T
Level 2: Standards for Students when teachers implement lesson from our workshop
English and Writing Common Core State Standards that students will meet when teachers incorporate digital literacy tools using the model provided within the workshop include:
NOTE: Additional subject specific standards will apply depending on the teacher pairings
TASK/ACTIVITY (includes compelling question and possible scenario):
Compelling Question:
How can we support teachers in creating cross-disciplinary lesson plans using interactive ebooks?
Scenario: In this professional development workshop, teachers will create an interdisciplinary lesson plan using an interactive ebook (web-based book with embedded game component). Upon completion of the workshop, teachers will be able to use their ebook as a teaching tool. Additionally, teachers will be able to use their ebook as a sample to teach their students how to create their own interactive ebooks.
CONTENT
Topics:
Texts:
Samples:
1. Interactive ebook: Summer Institute Example
2. Screencast tutorial samples
3. Learn More about IMapBook
a. Video overview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plN-T72nceY&feature=youtu.be
b. Product website: http://www.imapbook.com/
PEDAGOGY
Instructional Strategies: Communicate purpose verbally and with a written summary and outline of workshop (i.e. Instructional Plan), model the revision of an existing lesson plan; pair and share to merge an English lesson with a lesson from another subject area; reflect and modify lesson as needed; provide a template for teacher pairs to generate a collaborative lesson plan that results in an interactive ebook using IMapBooks
Tools:
ASSESSMENT
Work Products
How Measure?
Additional considerations:
Time frame: 1 day workshop
Morning
- Explain IMapBook concepts, show example IMapBooks ½ hour
- designing the lesson (includes integrating a language with some other discipline, such as science or social studies), make rough lesson plan (1 hour)
- create small story, find graphics (1 hour)
AfternoonSetting: TBD
Post-Production Reflection
For our group, the creative process began with some elements of uncertainty and confusion. Our group members backgrounds ranged from a media advocate, an instructional technology college professor, and a librarian for a K through 8 school. With two of the three group members leaving before the end of the week, there was also a sense of urgency. This ended up driving us and by the end of Wednesday, we felt that we had a solid plan to move forward as we all went back to our respective professional lives and communities.